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Her publisher encouraged her, at the time, to write about a young Scout. She set this aside and wrote Mockingbird.
This was a submitted draft, not a book that was supposed to be the finished book. She took two more years to write the actual book, with suggestions and encouragement from her first editor. That is how books come to fruition, in many cases.
I wonder how many other writers, who write many books, would feel about an early draft of their signature work being promoted as "another book." The only signficant distinction here is that Mockingbird was her only work, and that's what amplifies this into what is nearly scandalous. It would otherwise simply be unfair, but not a major media event.
After Ernest Hemingway died the book he had been working on was published... I believe it was Island in the Stream... and 'holes' were filled in by an editor/author based upon his notes.
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Her publisher encouraged her, at the time, to write about a young Scout. She set this aside and wrote Mockingbird.
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This was a submitted draft, not a book that was supposed to be the finished book. She took two more years to write the actual book, with suggestions and encouragement from her first editor. That is how books come to fruition, in many cases. I wonder how many other writers, who write many books, would feel about an early draft of their signature work being promoted as "another book." The only signficant distinction here is that Mockingbird was her only work, and that's what amplifies this into what is nearly scandalous. It would otherwise simply be unfair, but not a major media event.
After Ernest Hemingway died the book he had been working on was published... I believe it was Island in the Stream... and 'holes' were filled in by an editor/author based upon his notes.
